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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on February 26, 2010, 06:21:00 PM
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Oh my.
Enrique (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 09:21 PM
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Obama and Biden both called Cheney after heart attack
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/obama-giv... /
President Obama called former Vice President Dick Cheney at home to wish him a speedy recovery from his latest heart attack, a rare truce in the fiery, arms-length debate the two have been having about national security over the last year.
A White House official said Thursday that the president called Mr. Cheney on Wednesday after the former vice president was released from George Washington University Hospital. Mr. Cheney was treated for what his office called a “mild heart attack,†his fifth over the last three decades.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had previously called his predecessor while Mr. Cheney was still at the hospital. The White House did not announce Mr. Obama’s call on Wednesday but the official confirmed it in response to an inquiry. Mr. Cheney’s spokesman could not be reached for comment.
lordcommander (64 posts) Thu Feb-25-10 09:23 PM
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1. But Obama and Biden classy as always.
asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 09:24 PM
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3. They are part of a very small club.
And they are all far better friends then they want us to believe.
Cha (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 09:25 PM
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5. That's bullhockey and you're better than that.
This was the Prez and the VP showing class as usual. Nothing more.
MadBadger (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 09:27 PM
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6. Have to agree with Cha on all fronts
asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 09:29 PM
Response to Reply #6
8. Huge surprise.
MadBadger (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 09:31 PM
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9. Ok, so are you not better than this?
asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 09:37 PM
Response to Reply #9
12. Better than what?
That doesn't make sense to me.
I'm probably not better than most things, worse than some, and a mile ahead of others. How's that?
Cha (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 09:39 PM
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13. Thank you, I'm not going to respond to the insults.
Jennicut (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 09:46 PM
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14. HW Bush and Clinton certainly are.
But I doubt Obama likes Cheney much with all the criticism thrown his way by Cheney. Not friends but yes, they are all part of a club.
Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 10:47 PM
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30. SMOKE & MIRRORS, JENNICUT!
SMOKE AND MOTHER ****ING MIRRORS!
Cheney adores Obama! THEY LOVE EACH OTHER! ALL AN ACT! CHENEY IS DOING IT BECAUSE HE'S SO UNPOPULAR AND KNOWS THAT IF HE ATTACKS OBAMA IT MAKES PEOPLE SIDE WITH OBAMA MORE! HE HAS TO PUT UP THE FRONT TO PULL THE WOOL OVER THE EYES OF THIS MASS-COUNTRY!
I READ IT ON THE NET!
Cali_Democrat (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 09:46 PM
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16. Obama and Biden's call to Cheney was a classy move
But instead of calling it what it is, you'd rather beat Obama over the head with it.
Cheney is a former Vice President and there's nothing wrong with a sitting President and Vice President wishing him well.
You are a very small person indeed.
ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 10:46 PM
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29. Cheney and Bush are War Criminals - Obama and Biden helped negate and deny their crimes.
I find nothing "classy" in most anything they do that IGNORES war crimes.
asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 10:48 PM
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31. Thanks.
I'm really not trying to be an asshole here, of course, who has to try? But what I've seen in my life tells me there are two levels and you, me and almost everyone else will never be on the top. Call me jaded.
These guys are not heroes to me.
Name removed (0 posts) Thu Feb-25-10 10:51 PM
#18 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
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Vicar In A Tutu (42 posts) Fri Feb-26-10 06:25 AM
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38. Only prosecuting them would be a partisan step and effectively doom Democrats for generations.
If you want to go into shady shit US Presidents have done, you can't only make an example of the worst offenders. There are grounds for just about every living former President to be marched into a courtroom and tried by a jury. The idea that Bush and Cheney were ever going to seized and put on trial existed only in delusion.
ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-26-10 06:52 AM
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39. And that's what matters most: Party over Justice?
I weep for my Country.
spiritual_gunfighter (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-26-10 07:15 AM
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40. You said it better than I
If people don't think that the President and VP aren't closer to the Bush cabal than they appear to be in public they are foolish.
Happyhippychick (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 09:25 PM
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4. He is a better man than I would be. I have to respect it.
proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 09:36 PM
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10. They have class and manners.
Good for them.
Historic NY (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 09:36 PM
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11. I'd have sent him a slab of fatback bacon.
jillan (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 10:01 PM
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18. I have a feeling that phone call was not good for Cheney's heart - or what's left of a heart.
dmr (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 10:05 PM
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19. They have manners. It's called decorum.
FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 10:06 PM
THE MENTALLY-DISORDERED STENCHY CAT PRIMITIVE
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20. Cheney probably hated that.....
Made him mad I bet!
I can see him now....
ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 10:48 PM
Response to Reply #27
32. No, it's what the ruling elites do for each other. They love each other more than us inconsequential peasant classes.
Incitatus (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 11:13 PM
Response to Reply #32
34. well that sucks.
Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Thu Feb-25-10 11:34 PM
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35. Well, in Obama's defense, they are family
distant cousins or something, wasn't it?
On the other hand, Biden should have wished him a nice trip back home...... to Hell
eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-26-10 02:05 AM
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36. Hopefully, they just called to remind him that justice will still be waiting.
Vinca (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-26-10 07:58 AM
THE HIP-IMPAIRED VINDICTIVE PRIMITIVE
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42. I, on the other hand, stuck pins in my Dick Cheney voodoo doll.
Phx_Dem (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-26-10 10:38 AM
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43. Nice to know someone in Washington still has class.
God knows Cheney doesn't deserve a kind word from anyone.
Hekate (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-26-10 10:42 AM
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44. Our Guys have more class in their little fingers than Cheney does in his nonexistent heart
Our Guys did the right thing
BeyondGeography (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-26-10 10:58 AM
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45. Obama is the last political grown-up standing in this country
It's not an act.
You can disagree with the proposal that he can wear down the Republicans and lift up the country with civility and intelligence, but you can't fault him for actually following through.
polichick (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-26-10 11:03 AM
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46. If it made his blood pressure go up, good - but there comes a point...
...when it's just plain silly to bother with sociopaths.
Beacool (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-26-10 04:22 PM
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51. That was very classy.
Kaleva (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-26-10 05:08 PM
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52. Obama and Biden continue to be class acts.
The primitives are out of their ****ing minds.
DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-26-10 05:33 PM
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53. What did they call him?
graywarrior (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-26-10 05:51 PM
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54. Called him what, heartless?
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I have no fight to pick with Biden and O doing that,not sure how little a person can be that they would get themselves in a knot over it.
One thing that must be said though...Presidents Bush 41 and 43 may not have always done things perfectly but you can never say they did not exhibit class and grace to all.
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BeyondGeography (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-26-10 10:58 AM
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45. Obama is the last political grown-up standing in this country
:sarcasm:
Fixed it for the DUmmie by adding the sarcasm smilie.
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Fixed it for the DUmmie by adding the sarcasm smilie.
If the whining narcissist Hussein is one's idea of a "grown-up", they must be a liberal. I've never seen a President who displays such obvious unsubtle juvenile body language. He's done everything but roll his eyes and do the "chickenhead" thing, and one day he's going to slip up and do that too. Living with Michelle, it can't help but rub off. Just like slipping up and saying "my muslim faith"--it's going to happen.